Canary Islands - any tips?

[Durbs]

Had the worst holiday of my life years ago in Las Americas, apartment was awful and next to what turned out to be the local fighting spot with gangs of lads brawling and glassing each other into the wee small hours, couple of times came down the apartment stairs in the morning to find used syringes lying in the stairwell. Weather was tulip too for the whole week and didn't like the beaches. Serves me right for booking a last minute cheap holiday to chav town.

For that reason i'd never consider the Canaries again even though i'm sure it has some nice spots just steer clear of Tenerife.

[cojak]

For that reason i'd never consider the Canaries again even though i'm sure it has some nice spots just steer clear of Tenerife.

Nope, can't agree with this.

South Tenerife is as Durbs says, but don't paint the whole of Tenerife like it because it isn't.

I love Puerto del La Cruz. It's a great little resort and has a fantastic Lido (with 7 pools) that more than makes up for a lack of a Sandy beach.

And that area has some of the best walking in the Canaries. Mt Teide is stunning.

[Troll]

This dropped into my inbox recently -Canaries £99 for 7 days with choice of resorts...but flights not included


HTH

[oscarose]

Nope, can't agree with this.

South Tenerife is as Durbs says, but don't paint the whole of Tenerife like it because it isn't.

I love Puerto del La Cruz. It's a great little resort and has a fantastic Lido (with 7 pools) that more than makes up for a lack of a Sandy beach.

And that area has some of the best walking in the Canaries. Mt Teide is stunning.

Puerto del la Cruz sounds good, particularly the walking, as I like to be doing something on holiday but the lack of beach could result in some earache.

[oscarose]

Had the worst holiday of my life years ago in Las Americas, apartment was awful and next to what turned out to be the local fighting spot with gangs of lads brawling and glassing each other into the wee small hours, couple of times came down the apartment stairs in the morning to find used syringes lying in the stairwell. Weather was tulip too for the whole week and didn't like the beaches. Serves me right for booking a last minute cheap holiday to chav town.

For that reason i'd never consider the Canaries again even though i'm sure it has some nice spots just steer clear of Tenerife.

I have much fonder memories of Las Americas from many years ago, in particular an Irish chick drawing blood following an overly enthusiastic BJ.

[ChrisPackit]

I too have fond memories of Tenerife for all the wrong reasons. A mate of mine came back with more than he went with shall we say, in Americas, and I remember meeting a lovely girl from Cambridge who could "suck the chrome off a BMX"

[cojak]

Puerto del la Cruz sounds good, particularly the walking, as I like to be doing something on holiday but the lack of beach could result in some earache.

The Lido is great, really!

Lago Martianez, the Lido, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife - a set on Flickr

[oscarose]

The Lido is great, really!

Lago Martianez, the Lido, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife - a set on Flickr

Very impressive.

Thanks for the info. Definitely going to give Puerto del la Cruz serious consideration and looks a safer bet than Los Cristianos away from the scrubbers and dross of Las Americas.

[EternalOptimist]

My tip - dont go.

dont even think about it.

Not that I have ever been myself mind, but I had this mate right, and it was the worst 4 years and two weeks of his life.
He spent two weeks being persued by a lovely raven haired nymph, but he was faithful to his wife and rejected her, turns out she was a boy dressed up as a bird, with real norks and all, and she reported him to the police for 'arguido de la burito' which translates as 'suspected of molesting donkeys'

Turned out the lad was actually the son(daughter?) of the chief of police who had my mate arrested at the airport as he was due to fly out. When the consul arrived the police had fitted him up, and had xrays of him with six condoms full of stuff in his lower intestines.
The consul wasnt much help either, he said that if the police had fitted him up, the drugs would not have had time to go through his stomache. but my mate told him that they hadnt gone in through his mouth

bottom line was , he got 12 months for being a mule and 3 years for molesting a donkey

dont go. dont even think about it




no word of a lie gov

[Alf W]

Never been to Tenerife but i saw the best example of sunburn I've ever seen on a Scottish bloke in Lanzarote. I was laughing for days afterwards.